Case Study-6 The Prison

Question 1

Background

What was the background of this study?

Answer 1

Background was that it was all focused on the individual (dispositional) VERSUS situational variable.

Question 2

Back ground :
What is dispositional?
What is situational?

Answer 2

Dispositional the feature or characteristic located in an individual

Situational- behavior caused due to the feature or characteristic of a situation.

Question 3

Aim

What was the aim?

Answer 3

Investigate whether the behavior of non prisoners in a stimulated prison environment is affected by their disposition than the situation they are in.

Question 4

Method: setting
What was design of the setting?
Where
Corredor

Answer 4

Done in a basement corredor- Stanford University

Corredor was known as the yard

Question 5

Method: setting
Describe the cells?
What did they have ?

Answer 5

Three small cells
6x9 feet
Had a cot, one for each prisoner. Three prisioneira in one cell.

Question 6

Method setting

Describe the hole?

Answer 6

Hole was a solitary confinement:

• was a unit room
• 2x2x7 feet
• small broom cupboard

Question 7

Method setting

What were the other rooms for?

Answer 7

For other guards- bedroom for super intendente and Watson

Interviewing room

Room for recording equipment and observers

Question 8

Method setting

What else? (4)

Answer 8

• no windows
• no clocks
• no constancy with outside world
• was an entrance door

Question 9

Method

WHAT was the design of the prison?

Answer 9

All prionsers had to stay in there cells 24 hours

Guards worked 8 hours a day and had shift.

Question 10

Method
Designs of guards? What did they wear? (5)
What effect did this have?

Answer 10

Khaki shirt
Khaki trousers 
Reflecting sunglasses 
Wooden baton
Whistle. 

Adapt role fully
Goes beyond their role
Guards even asked to do more shift as they liked to feel in control

Question 11

Method

Design of prisioners (6)

Answer 11

Muslim smock 
Identification number 
No underclothes 
Light chain on their ankle 
Rubber sandals 
Nylon stocking cap

Question 12

Participants

How many participants were there? lol

Answer 12

24 and two stand by.

Question 13

Participants

What did they do, to choose all applicants

Answer 13

They gave the psychological interviews and tests to eliminate any
psychological problems,
medical issues and
collect family back grounds.

Question 14

Participants
How did they find this?
How were participants selected.

Answer 14

Through an advertisement on newspaper advert.

Self selected sampling

Question 15

Participants

What did the contract include?

Answer 15

• enough clothing
• appropriate clothing
• medical care
• no psychical abuse
• 15$ a day

Question 16

Participants
How were they deceived?
How were they informed

Answer 16

Didn’t know they were going to be arrested at home. And physical abuse

Little privacy as randomly assigned to guards or prisoners

Question 17

Procedure for the prisoner.

Answer 17

1. Collected on a Sunday morning, at their houses, and were arrested for armed robbery.
2. Read their own legal rights, were hand cuffed and researched.
3. Driven off to a real police station in a Californian police car
4. Once arrived were
   - stripped
   - given identification number
   - uniform
   - in cell

Question 18

Procedure for the guards.

Answer 18

1. 11 guards met before, for a day of induction procedure.
2. Were introduced to the research team. - Wadden and Zimbardo
3. They were told that their goal was to create a prison environment that was reliable and ethical
4. Main task ‘was to maintain a reasonable degree of order within the prison for its functioning.
5. Somethings were not told as they wanted to see their attitudes.

Question 19

Prison procedure

Answer 19

1. 9 guards 9 prisoners
2. Guards would bring prisoners out of cell for counts. - lined against wall and ID number was read.
3. Prisoners were given rules and had to know them.
4. If prisoner tried to act independent their punishment was push-ups.

Question 20

Procedure

What did each prisoner have? (6)

Answer 20

3 meals a day
3 supervised toilet breaks
3 times a day were lined against wall

2 hours privilege
Two visiting prods
Work assignment

Question 21

Results
In general what was found ?
(3)

Answer 21

1. State of prisoners is due to the situation they are in rather than the disposition hence dispositional hypothesis was not agreed.
2. Guards will adopt an authoritative role and internalize it.
3. Prisoners will follow the role given and suffer.

Question 22

Results

How did the results show pathology power ? (4)

Answer 22

1. Guards liked to feel POWER
2. Used psychological tactics

3 guards ripped prisoners naked

4 Called at any time of the day

Question 23

Results

How did the results show pathological prisoner syndrome

Answer 23

1. Prioners reacted emotionally, proof was with a psychometric rash.
2. Received sense of helplessness and usefulness
3. Lost identity

Question 24

Results
Why did the study stop?
(2)

Answer 24

Guards:

1. Guards were escalating the abuse of prionsers at night, when they thought no one was seeing them.
2. Boredom also lead to this

Christina Maslack

1. Was brought in to interview guards and prionsers.
2. Period were she saw they walk away and saw the way they were being treated.
3. Went into an emotional rage and told zimbardo for study to stop.

Question 25

Evaluation
Strengths
Essay

Answer 25

Strength: